"Well, Baron Aolance just plundered the freedmen in your territory, and did not offend your property, so this is not an act of war, and it is not impossible for you to capture him, but you can only ask him to pay money as compensation, and you can't ask for land compensation. John Saeki Allens said with some astonishment.

"What? Looting the Free Folk is not robbing my property?" Zhang Zhongjun was also stunned.

Now John Saeber Allens looked puzzled and said: "Of course the freedmen are not the property of the lord, they are not even the lords, the freedmen are only responsible for paying commercial taxes and rentals of houses and land, and in addition, they do not need to pay military taxes, let alone obey the orders of the lords." ”

Zhang Zhongjun blinked, feeling that the free people are not the people, so the free people can be plundered by the nobles outside the territory at will? And the lord of the territory can turn a blind eye?

Damn, why do the freedmen pay taxes to their lords? You can't even protect them! And doing this, it really feels like forcing the freedmen to give up their freedom, this is a trick to reduce the number of freemen?

Of course, Zhang Zhongjun didn't ask about this kind of thing, after all, it seemed that he was too straightforward. But looking at John's disapproving appearance, listening to the freedmen who have been robbing the territory of Allens for a long time, Allens has not regarded Baron Aolens as an enemy, then you can know that this kind of thing to reduce the number of freemen should be a tacit understanding between nobles.

Damn, these aristocrats are so stupid, they just want to reduce the number of freedmen to increase the number of serfs under their command, and they don't want to think about the huge difference between the productivity of the serfs who have lost their freedom and the productivity of the freedmen.

And the previous battles can clearly see that the nobles of this world don't treat their own people as human beings at all, just look at the peasants and soldiers who were sent to the battlefield as head gifts.

This is what he meows, not only doing everything possible to increase the number of serfs in his own territory, but he also meows not taking the number of these serfs seriously, I really don't know if these nobles are brainless.

For Zhang Zhongjun, having experienced so many worlds, it is natural that he has a set of means to manage his subordinates, which cannot be used in some unified countries, such as in the Great Chen Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjun can only act according to the rules of the Great Chen Dynasty, but he never dares to make his own decisions.

But in this world where the aristocracy has great autonomy, Zhang Zhongjun really dares to use his own means. Anyway, his task is to get rid of this island, so the strength of his own command has increased greatly, and it is also an amplifier to speed up the speed of his own unification of the island, in this case, it is natural to use some means well.

As for whether he will be troubled by others if he uses the system indiscriminately? Hehe, Zhang Zhongjun looked at the birdman suspended next to him, he dared to pat his chest and said that everyone was welcome to come and find faults, and it was best for the entire island to gather troops to come to encircle and suppress, so that it would be easier for him, because as long as such a coalition force was done, then he would be able to conquer the island by himself.

However, it is unlikely, because after John Saeber Allens began to introduce the political form of the island to Zhang Zhongjun, Zhang Zhongjun understood that unless he was excited to provoke and rob others of his interests, it was impossible for the entire island to form a coalition to crusade against him.

As I said before, this island is called Vik Island, and the whole island is about 200,000 square kilometers, and it is divided into northern and southern areas by the Black Mountain Range. Well, the area of the northern region is relatively small, and the area of the southern region is relatively large, which is roughly divided into about 50,000 square kilometers in the northern region and about 15 square kilometers in the southern region.

Although the entire island can be connected by the sea, the customs of the southern and northern regions are completely different.

In the north, because it is separated from the Divine Grace Continent by a strait of tens of nautical miles, and most of the economic exchanges of the port cities rely on the Divine Grace Continent, the customs and human feelings are biased towards the Divine Grace Continent, and the politics are played by kingdoms, aristocratic leaders, churches, chambers of commerce, and so on.

The southern region is completely detached from the mainland, and is blocked by a Black Mountain Range, and if you want to hook up, you have to go around the sea along the sea, so there are political structures such as city-states, tribes, and alliances, and they are very accustomed to forming pirate alliances, and they run to the strait in groups to rob merchant ships.

Because of this, don't look at everyone on the same island, the north and south sides are almost enemies, but because the Black Mountain Range that runs across the entire island is too steep, it is impossible for large troops to pass.

Therefore, on the north and south sides, in addition to small army wars, the most common thing is to fight through warships. The port alliance in the north does not want to unite the port alliance of the Holy Grace Continent and form a large army to rush to the south to exterminate these pirates who hinder their business.

But after some calculations, it is completely worth the loss, and everyone knows that there is an area of 150,000 square kilometers in the south, but it is poor in terms of economy and planting, otherwise the people in the south will not be almost all pirates, and it is completely a loss to spend huge manpower, material resources and funds to build such a place.

And there are pirates rampant in the strait, and you can also use this to raise the price of some special goods, from time to time it is reported that a certain commodity has been looted by pirates, how long will it take for the next batch of goods, and raise the price out of thin air to ship, so that your own chamber of commerce can make a lot of money.

Therefore, entangled in all kinds of problems and all kinds of concerns, this battle to exterminate the southern region has never begun.

That is to say, for a lord like Zhang Zhongjun, the southern region does not need to be considered for the time being, and the Holy Grace Continent does not need to be considered, because you can't reach it.

And what he needs to care about is the political power in the north of 50,000 square kilometers.

On these 50,000 square kilometers, there are three port alliances, yes, although there is a Shenghao Alliance, ninety percent of the ports in the north have joined. But there are two port alliances that are also very awesome, and there are many lord ports that have joined all three ports at the same time.

However, it is normal, the Shenghao Alliance is mainly for the ports of the Holy Grace Continent, and the Left Saint Alliance, which is located on the left side of the island, and the Right Saint Alliance, which is located on the right side of the island, can still get so many alliance members to join, is because these two port alliances are military alliances, mainly for the pirate alliance that has bypassed the southern region.

It can be said that these two alliances protect the security of the strait one on the left and one on the right, and without the existence of these two alliances, I am afraid that pirate attacks in the strait will be rampant countless times.